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Book Launch of The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education & Workshop on the Future of Democratic Education
none Democratic education is central to the functioning and flourishing of modern multicultural democracies, and yet it is subject to increasing public controversy and political pressure. Waning public trust in government institutions, sustained attacks o ...
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From utopia to real possibilities. How can critical social science contribute to political strategy? with Laurent Jeanpierre
none This conference will address questions of hope and powerlessness and their interplay in contemporary societies, as well as the role that social sciences can play in the renewal of our collective emancipatory imagination. 100 Image https://www.aup.edu ...
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Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory. A discussion on Bernard E. Harcourt's latest book
none Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path- cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonp ...
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A Working-Class Ecological Perspective on Just Transition: The GKN Case Study
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/28eco-sotto-gkn-fonte-facebook.jpg 0 On 9 July 2021, more than 450 metalworkers received a dismissal email from Melrose Industries, the private equity fund that used to own GKN ...
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Over Yet Unresolved: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, from Self Determination to Ethnic Cleansing
none The Schaeffer Center for the study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention has invited Taline Papazian to AUP to speak about the ongoing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Taline Papazian is a political scientist. She has published and taught at ...
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Book Workshop: The Migrating Self, A New Psychology of Migration and its Public, by Kesi Mahendran
none The book The Migrating Self challenges conventional views on migration by introducing a new psychology that positions people's migration experiences along a continuum of ten degrees of mobility. Drawing from fifteen years of empirical research a ...
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An Evening with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
none Please join us on the 22nd of January for a reading by poet, literary translator, and musician Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Lorrain writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese and is the author of several poetry collections and most recently a novel ...
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Discussing the Current Situation in Syria with Professor Ziad Majed
none After 54 years of brutal dictatorship and 14 years of revolution and war, the Assad regime in Syria has fallen. How did this happen and what is the situation today? What are the political challenges in this devastated country and what kind of transit ...
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The Right to Education in International Law: Abidjan Principles on Regulation of Private Education
none Join Roman Zinigrad (AUP) and other experts on the right to education for a webinar on "Abidjan Principles 6th Anniversary: Unpacking the Legal Foundations and Justifications". The webinar will focus on the Guiding Principles on the Human R ...
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Book launch "Nancy Fraser and Politics", in the presence of Nancy Fraser, Eli Zaretsky, Estelle Ferrarese, and Stephen W. Sawyer
This event has been canceled The Center for Critical Democracy Studies is thrilled to announce the release of "Nancy Fraser and Politics", co-authored by Zona Zarić, a groundbreaking monograph that offers the first comprehensive analysis of Na ...